Annie Darling's 24th adventure caps an exciting several years of new books and the return of earlier titles, including most recently Castle Rock, Death by Surprise and a number of early titles now available as ebooks.

DEATH AT THE DOOR will be released on May 6, 2014. In one shocking week, two acts of violence shake the island community of Broward’s Rock. A beloved doctor is found shot dead, seemingly by his own hand. Only days later, a local artist is arrested after his wife is found murdered, bludgeoned by her husband’s sculpting mallet.

Convinced her brother did not commit suicide, the doctor’s sister turns to Annie Darling and her husband, Max, for help. She brings them a cryptic sketch her brother drew, linking him with the murdered woman. Did someone want them both out of the picture?

With the police considering both cases closed, it’s up to Annie and Max to sort through a rogues’ gallery of suspects to see if someone is trying to frame the artist. But if Annie isn’t careful, she may find herself having her own brush with death…


The publication of Death at the Door coincided with a magical evening for me. Bob Crais and I received the Grand Master Awards from Mystery Writers of America at the Edgars dinner in New York. Bob and I are thankful for the wonderful readers who made this shining moment possible.

If you'd like to share this Grand Master Moment, just click here for the You Tube video.

I'm looking forward to several exciting mystery events.

At 7 p.m. on March 25, I will be part of a mystery panel at The Poisoned Pen in Scottsdale, AZ, to celebrate its 25th anniversary.

Earlene Fowler and I will be together at the Tempe, AZ library at 11.a.m. March 26.

March 29 is a huge mystery event in Huntington Beach, CA. The day long gathering at the Huntington Beach Hotel features many wonderful authors, To register, please go to the website of Orange County Sisters in Crime.

May 1 is circled in red on my calendar. Robert Crais and I will be Grand Masters at Edgars, May 1 in NYC. We are old friends and that will make the exciting evening even more special.

You can read more about this in Oline Cogdill's article for Mystery Scene and in Joe Meyers' article for CT News.com

If you love Topper and Blithe Spirit, celebrate Christmas with It's a Wonderful Life, and live to laugh, please join the Late Bailey Ruth Raeburn, Heaven's irrepressible sleuth, on the Rescue Express October 1. Bailey Ruth returns to earth to help a scruffy but lovable 20-something-video-game inventor who has lots of money and just as many enemies.

In GHOST GONE WILD, Berkley Prime Crime hardcover, Bailey Ruth foils a shooting, but discovers her Heavenly supervisor has no idea she's on earth and this time she may never make it back to Heaven!

In November, Seventh Street Books will publish DEATH BY SURPRISE, my 'hardboiled' novel starring a street-savvy young woman lawyer who finds treachery at every turn when a blackmaliler threatens her and her well-heeled family.

In December, Berkley Prime Crime will publish CRY IN THE NIGHT in paperback, its first appearance in print. An anthropologist comes to Mexico City looking for romance and instead dares death on the Street of the Dead.

Other titles newly available this year:
THE DEVEREAUX LEGACY
A SETTLING OF ACCOUNTS
FLEE FROM THE PAST
ESCAPE FROM PARIS
NO EASY ANSWERS
BRAVE HEARTS
DEAD, WHITE, AND BLUE

All titles are available from your favorite bookseller

Signed Copies are available from the Poisoned Pen

Dear Reader,

DEAD, WHITE AND BLUE, my 50th novel, will be published by Berkley in May 2013 and, thanks to two wonderful small presses, many of my earlier titles are enjoying new life.